Halal Sex Shop Opens For Muslims

A Turkish entrepreneur has opened what he says is the country’s first online sex shop for Muslims, selling everything from lubricants to herbal aphrodisiacs and offering advice on how to have “halal” sex.

Haluk Murat Demirel, 38, said he had been inspired to launch the site (www.bayan.helalsexshop.com) by friends who wanted sex advice and products but found the content on other websites and in specialist stores too explicit.

“Online sex shops usually have pornographic pictures, which makes Muslims uncomfortable. We don’t sell vibrators for example, because they are not approved by Islam,” Demirel said.

Sexual mores provoke frequent debate in the majority Muslim but constitutionally secular country. There are relatively few sex shops, even in major cities, although in parts of Istanbul those that do exist advertise themselves with neon signs…

oh, I gotchya.
my experience, though, is most people are barely prude. particularly the progressive types and non-religious who are hardly a minority anymore.

BuzzCoastin

I’ve been AWOL from aMerkin Kulture for over a decade now
so maybe things have changed
but when I last checked it was impolite to discuss
sex, politics or religion in public
and even the most perverse
usually cover their perversion with a righteous indignation
(Jimm Bakkker, Jimmy Swineheart, most gay politicians etc)
and
YouTube will take down a vid with merely a hint of sex
as will Fakebook et al

jnana

perhaps that’s true amongst those in the middle and upper classes, the rural and suburban, and for the deeply religious. but amongst the lower class, students, urban classes, and relatively non-religious I think sex is quite open

InfvoCuernos

I wonder if they are into bondage? I know there was that article about the Fifty Shades of Grey being popular in Gitmo.